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1/22/23: "
Global Warming Is Driving Polar Bears Toward Extinction, Researchers Say
" NYT
10/20/22: "Endangered Species Act Isn't Working Well, Study Finds"
8/28/22: "Indigenous leaders get a choice: Join the narcos or run for your lives" WaPo
8/3/22: "Global Forest Area Declined by 60% Since 1960, Study Finds" Ecowatch
6/27/22: "BP Paid Rural Mexicans a “Pittance” for Wall Street’s Favorite Climate Solution" Bloomberg
6/10/22: "The Looming Threat of Eviction: The Continued Displacement of the Maasai Under the Guise of Conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area"
1/20/22: How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction" Bloomberg
1/13/22: "Scientists Search for 10 Elusive Bird Species That Have Been Lost for Years"
IUCN Conservation Congress Marseille, 2021, "Natural allies, Climate and biodiversity are two sides of the same coin"
6/8/21: "Katherine Heigl Joins Effort to Save Utah’s Famous Herd of Wild Horses" Treehugger
3/15/21: "Global Sand Mining Is Destroying the Planet and Costing Lives" DW
3/11/21: "There’s a Global Plan to Conserve Nature. Indigenous People Could Lead the Way." NYT
3/9/21: "'Frightening' New Data Reveals Humanity Has Destroyed Two-Thirds of World's Rainforest"
2/6/21: "Invasive Insects and Diseases Are Killing Our Forests" NYT
2/2/21: "How Protecting Wetlands Can Help the Climate"
1/29/21: "Biden Executive Order Pushes for Protection of 30% of America's Land, Oceans"
1/28/21: "50 Countries Join Ambitious Plan to Protect 30% of Earth by 2030"
12/16/20: After Wildfires, Mourning the Loss of California’s Giants, NYT
11/24/20: Deforestation in Para, Brazil has been on the rise - largely because of human activity and land exploitation. How can we stop it?
10/19/20: Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia
9/21/20: "Humans Destroyed Intact Ecosystem Land the Size of Mexico in Just 13 Years "
9/16/20: "Humans Wiped Out Two-Thirds of the World’s Wildlife in 50 Years"
9/11/20: "Conservation Works: At Least 28 Birds and Mammals Have Been Saved from Extinction Since 1993"
9/10/20: "World's Wildlife Populations Have Declined by Nearly 70% in Just 50 Years, New Report Says"
9/10/20: "When the Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble"
9/10/20: "Humans are decimating wildlife, and the pandemic is a sign, report says" WaPo
9/5/20: "‘The World That Darwin Never Saw': Scientists Discover 30 New Marine Species in the Galapagos"
8/28/20: "Another COVID-19 reinfection: This time second infection was more severe"
7/28/20: "‘Criminalizing’ dissent, martial law fuel attacks on Philippine environmental defenders"
7/22/20: "Who Suffers When Rainforests Burn?"
7/13/20:"Team Lioness: The Kenyan Women Rangers Risking Their Lives for Wildlife"
6/26/20 The threatened tribe Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon
June 5, 2020: "B.C. opens Sunshine Coast forest — home to some of Canada’s oldest trees — to logging"
Last pocket of tropical rainforest in North America under threat
June 3: "Data Find Rainforests Lost 14,000 Square Miles in 2019" DW
June 2: Study finds sixth mass extinction accelerating at unprecedented rate
The Earth Has Lungs. Watch Them Breathe. NatGeo
To Prevent Next Coronavirus, Stop the Wildlife Trade, Conservationists Say 2/19/20 NYT
Dozens Of Countries Could Reverse Carbon Emissions Just By Caring For Nature (Forbes 1/26/20)
Few drug firms are fighting superbug threat
(LAT 1/21/20)
'The Amazon is Completely Lawless': the rainforest after Bolsonaro's first year. 12/5/19
Staggering level of waste at Great Bear Rainforest logging operations, data reveals 11/30/19
Amazon Rainforest Sees Biggest Spike In Deforestation In Over A Decade 11/18/19
Insect apocalypse 11/13/19
Understanding extinction — humanity has destroyed half the life on Earth 10/18/19
Two mountain lions found dead in Santa Monica Mountains had ingested rat poison
New Report Finds at Least One in Five Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Are Traded Globally 10/7/19
North America Has Lost Nearly 3 Billion Birds Since 1970
Mother Earth's MeToo Moment- English Town Joins Campaign for 'Nature's Rights'
Forests on Utah’s public lands may soon be torn out
Eggs from Northern white rhinos fertilized 8/29/19
More of the planet is turning into desert 7/23/19
We ignore thousands of threatened plant species at our own peril 8/13/19
Human-Caused Extinctions Have Set Mammals Back Millions of Years
Less Than a Quarter of the Earth Has Escaped 'Substantial Impacts' by Humans
A new map reveals the causes of forest loss worldwide
Eight bird species extinctions t
his decade.
Edible animals low on the food chain: insects
Frightening plant extinction rate 6/12/19
Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
To solve climate change and biodiversity loss we need..
.
The world lost a Belgium sized rainforest in 2018
A Mysterious Infection is spreading across the globe
1/8/19 NatlGeo: Go underwater into the overlooked world of freshwater animals
Humanity has wiped out 60 percent of wildlife
E.O. Wilson on Conservation Requirements
Scientists agree with Wilson: save half the earth for wildlife
A
s habitat fragmentation increases so does extinction.pdf
Conservation successes overshadowed by more species declines – IUCN Red List update
Study shows how dogs became friends to humans
The biofuel bomb that will destroy nature
Strange bacteria kills hundreds of thousands of antelope in the Asian Steppe
NASA satellite time lapse imagery of life on earth
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NYT: Era of 'Biological Annihilation' is Underway
Why Are honeybees dying off?
Insects are in Serious Trouble
The Human Population Debate
6/3/22: "
Japan records its largest natural population decline as births fall" WaPo
1/22/22: "“Overpopulation” is a Flawed Concept" Medium
1/17/22: "China’s Births Hit Historic Low, a Political Problem for Beijing" NYT
Were early humans the first victims of the sixth mass extinction? 11/30/19
Heres why overpopulation is a myth 5/24/19
5/25/21: WaPo: "It’s wrong to blame ‘overpopulation’ for climate change"
5/22/21: NYT: "Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications"
5/31/21: NYT: "China Says It Will Allow Couples to Have 3 Children, Up From 2"
Human population could take a dive with current trends in fertility
"All the people: what happens if humanity's ranks start to shrink?"
UN revises population projections downward
The Tragedy of
the Tragedy of the Commons
, Scientific American
Forget Overpopulation. The World could soon face a population bust (LAT, 5/13/19)
Humans cause climate change. Do we just need fewer humans?
US birthrates plummet (NPR 5/15/19)
By the End of This Century, the Global Population Will Start to Shrink
World is Facing a Population Bust 7/16/20
Population in more than 20 countries to halve by 2100: Study 7/16/20
Forests and Deforestation: mass extinction and the other species
4/29/22: The Amazon, undone: Devouring the rainforest, WaPo
11/29/21: "Tracing the Trail of Amazon Deforestation" NYT
3/25/21: "Both African elephant species are now endangered, one critically" NatlGeo
3/11/21: "First study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggests the damaged forest is now worsening climate change"
2/2/21: :"
The world’s wetlands are slipping away. This vibrant sanctuary underscores the stakes."
2/2/21: "Putting our public forests into carbon reserves"
1/24/21: "Defanged: Money and Politics Could Doom the Florida Panther — and the Endangered Species Act" (Intercept)
"Pando, the Trembling Giant: Richfield, Utah, "One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens"
11/11/20: "Indigenous leaders count on Biden to help save Amazon forest from 'brink of collapse'"
10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
10/25/20: Soil Fungi Act Like A Support Network For Trees
9/29/20:"Planetary ‘safety net’ could halt wildlife loss and slow climate breakdown"
9/28/20: Why Tree-Killing Epidemics Are on the Rise
9/24/20: "As the Amazon burns, what happens to its biodiversity?"
8/5/20: "Herbivores at the highest risk of extinction among mammals, birds, and reptiles" (research paper)
7/31/20: "How Costa Rica Slowed, Stopped, Then Reversed, Deforestation in Their Rain Forests"
June 11, 2020: "America's Banks Are Financing Destructive Oil Projects in the Amazon"
6/10/20: New Report Documents Global Insect Decline and Calls for Reforming Industrial Agriculture
6/5/20: "Mangroves Threatened by Sea Level Rise Could Disappear by 2050"
A rewilding triumph-wolves in Yellowstone
Just 29000 Western Monarch Butterflies Are Left in California 1/27/20
All the Species Declared Extinct This Decade
Will We Ever Know the Difference Between a Wolf and a Dog?
Urban foxes may be self-domesticating in our midst
Once they are gone, they are gone, the fight to save the Sequoias
Tropical Forests Are Losing the Ability to Absorb CO2 1/28/20
Meet the Amazonian Giant That Helps the Rainforest Make Its Own Rain
Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest: Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.
“Environmentally Friendly” Charcoal Is Subsidizing Destruction of Gran Chaco
The Companies Behind the Burning of the Amazon
Who's Burning the Amazon? Rampant Capitalism 8/28/19
Feeling Sad About the Amazon Fires? Stop Eating Meat 8/23/19
The Amazon rainforest is burning 8/22/19
Why the Amazon is on Fire 8/22/19
In Bolsonaro’s burning Brazilian Amazon, all our futures are being consumed 8/23/19
Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario 8/22/19
Amazon rainforest close to tipping point on rain 10/23/19
What Bolsonaro plans to do in the Brazilian Amazon (NYT)
Under Brazil Bolsonaro Amazon Forests Fall NYT 7/28/19
Land thieves ramp up deforestation in Brazil 7/4/19
High value opportunities for restoring tropical forests. 7/8/19
Rainforest on Fire 7/6/19
'We Are Literally Sawing Off the Branch We All Live On'- Amazon Deforestation Increasing Under Bolsonaro
The price of ‘progress’ in the Amazon
6/28/19 WaPo
Business as Usual Threatens Thousands of Amazon Tree Species
Amazon Rainforest Near Collapse
Bolsonaro Stands By as 20 thousand invade the Yanomami Reserve in the Amazon 7/21/19
World's great forests could lose half of wildlife as planet warms
The terrifying phenomenon that is pushing species towards extinction
Biological Impacts of Climate Change
9/28/22: Guardian "Earth is under threat, yet you would scarcely know it"
George Monbiot
8/23/21: "Climate Change Contributed to Europe’s Deadly Floods, Scientists Find" NYT
8/11/21: "
Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined" WaPo
July 28, 2021: "Beyond human endurance: How climate change is making parts of the world too hot and humid to survive" WaPo
6/17/21: "Too hot to live: Millions worldwide will face unbearable temperatures" NatGeo
3/4/21: "450 butterfly species rapidly declining due to warmer autumns in the western U.S." NatlGeo
2/25/21: "Australian Scientists Warn of urgent action needed to save 19 collapsing ecosystems"
2/7/21: "One year Since Australia's Devastating Wildfires, Anger Grows at Climate Change 'Inaction'"
2/10/21: "New Study Finds Trees Absorbing More Carbon than Previously Thought"
Why Planting Trees Is One of the Most Effective Forms of Climate Action
12/3/20: The Climate Crisis Is Already Killing People, New Lancet Report Warns
12/1/20: Climate Change Threatens Hopi Corn and Way of Life in American West
10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
7/22/20 "Climate refugee wave coming" Propublica and NYT
6/26/20 The threatened tribe Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon
Will climate change push these amphibians to the brink?
Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico’s monarch butterfly migration 1/5/20 WaPo
The faces of extinction we lost in 2019
Geographers find tipping point in deforestation
Climate Crisis Threatens a Third of Plant Species, Endangering Food Supply
Climate Change Threatens the World's Food Supply UN Warns
Almost a quarter of eucalyptus trees found to be threatened with extinction
This Report Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Every Child
The Answer to Climate-killing cow farts might come from the sea
California will lose 389 bird species to climate change (Audubon Report, 10/30/19)
Indigenous farming practices failing as climate change disrupts seasons
Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario 8/22/19
Don't burn trees to fight climate change, McKibben
World Forest Wildlife Decline 53% since 1970
EU plans to plant 3 billion trees and massively expand organic farming (New Scientist 5/20/20)
Massive reforestation is key to averting a climate catastrophe
Tree planting and climate crisis (Gua 7/4/19)
The trouble with trees as a climate crisis solution
Planting Trees Won’t Stop Climate Change 5/25/20 Slate
Almost 600 Plant Species Have Become Extinct in the Last 250 Years
Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems
Humans are causing the extinction of up to 1 million species
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the UN Extinction Report
5 Major Crops in the Crosshairs of Climate Change, NPR
Antarctic Ancient Moss Beds dying from climate change
Climate Change and Human H
unger
Pole reversals and the Ice Age
Deforestation and climate change and extinct bird species
Trees are our best defense against climate change
Climate Change is wiping out parasites, critical to ecosystem
s
NG amphibian death C AM
Warning of 'ecological Armageddon''
The climate crisis is already here
Tropical Deforestation and Climate
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